PUNISHMENT IN PERSIA. The Barbaric Treatment Which is Said to Prevail There.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 196, 26 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

PUNISHMENT IN PERSIA. The Barbaric Treatment Which is Said to Prevail There.

One of my travelling companions told me that he saw the skeletons of several robbers who had been seized and put to death. A email round tank of brick had been constructed as high as to a man's chin. The condemned man was then put into the tank and newly mixed plaster of Paris poured in until the tank was full. The man was thus suflocated, and permanently fixed as a warning to other highwaymen* Sometimes the condemned one is placed with the head down in a tank, or in a hojo excavated for the purpose, and the liquid plaster is poured in until the body is firmly fixed ; the feet and ankles are left to protrude. A chief of one of the Loree clans entered an Armenian village at the head of several horsemen, at night. Being exasperated at the refusal of the people to com ply with hi 3 demands, and at the words spoken by some of the people. They took the priest and some of the principal men of the village, and tied them one by ore in a sack with a large dog. and then beat the dog until in his rage he killed the man tied up with him The Persian Governor hearing of the affair, made a hunting excursion into the territory Of the tribe Etiquette required that the cbicfshould visit the prince. He was sumptuously entertained ia the pavilion of the Governor, his followers being without. When hi* suspicions had been dispelled, in a moment an iron band wan sUpped about hie neck and chains jjufc upjn hid feet, and he w»9 thrown alive iuto om of the furnaces with which the bftUid are heated.